Augustus Road

Hybrida's wails became louder and louder, so Calabis stood there with his dagger in hand and looked at him. At this time, there was a sudden loud noise from a corner in the warehouse. Calabis immediately put the dagger across his chest and bent his waist - this was the "arrogance skill" he learned from the legionnaires. He pushed towards the source of the sound.

Over there, Hebrida was still howling, and Calabis said without hesitation: "Stop, don't cry anymore, there's a situation!" Then he slowly stood on tiptoe, stepping on the thick cross current. Above the corpse water, the edge of the sword tip shone slightly, and then there was another squeaking scream of a mouse from the corner, which frightened Calabis and shrank back again, leaning against the pillar of the warehouse, holding on. A vigilant posture.

Now, with the help of the dim light leaking from the tall and narrow window, Karabis could clearly see what was making the noise. In other words, this thing was barely a person, a child of four or five years old, with a dirty head. The animal's dirty hair covered his face, and there was an iron chain around his neck. The iron chain extended to one of the wooden cages. There was a small hole in the wooden cage, which allowed him to squeeze in. Pushing in and out, the two adults in the cage, a man and a woman, should be the child's parents. Their faces were covered with flies flying around. The corpse had turned black and swollen, exposing the white bones. The child was nestled in In the smelly water and wheat straw, he was holding a dirty half rat in his hand, chewing the rat's leg in his mouth, shaking and shaking. It seemed that this child was the only survivor among this group of slaves. He survived by hunting rats.

Seeing this scene, Calabis's hands were shaking and his throat was feeling salty. Even though he had seen countless deaths during this period, this scene still made him feel angry and painful. There was a sound of footsteps. Karabis turned around and saw that Hebrida had also noticed the child. He came over with a fierce look with red eyes. Karabis understood that after being angry, Hebrida would do the only thing she could do. matter.

The sword edge flashed, and Hebrida instinctively stopped and jumped out of the killing circle. Then he couldn't believe his eyes - it was Calabis, holding the sword and facing him, his eyes equally filled with resentment. .

"Get out of my way, brother," Hebrida warned.

"Get out of here, brother, don't even think about touching this child!" Karabis replied, clenching the hilt of his sword.

Hebrida raised her hands and smiled contemptuously, "Calabis, Calabis, do you know how to use that thing in your hand? Do you want to play with it in front of my brother? Yeah!" Then! He kept making provocative gestures with his hands, shouting to Calabis, "Come on! Come on!"

Calabis's palms were sweating, and he slowly paced back and forth with Hebrida, but he still stabilized himself, keeping his eyes in a straight line with the sword with all his strength, and smiled, and said: "Don't worry, brother won't The one who strikes first, as stated in the legion's thrusting regulations, is the one who strikes first and tries to see if your own sword is sharp enough. I will kill you, or I will maim you and leave you in the legion. Become a loser, like Batiatus. What, are you afraid?"

"Asshole, Karabis, how dare you resist me!" Hebrida took two steps back helplessly and yelled, but because he didn't have a dagger in his hand, he could only step back temporarily and continue to roar, "You are in the third The alliance has prospered, dare to resist brother!"

"Always low-level Hybrida, aren't you just asking for money to send to your wife and children? Why should we do this? We might as well negotiate a condition." Calabis still held the hilt of the sword tightly and leaned against the pillar, but He used hard and soft tactics on Hebrida, "This child is your slave, I will just buy it."

"You buy it? Haha, you buy it?"

"Fifty drachmas, that's enough!" Calabis asked the price, "It's just a child. I'll give you two hundred sesterces, that's enough. If you don't like it, I can throw him to you now." , let’s see what price you can get in Bithynia. Also, sell Timo Xiu’s money immediately, I don’t want it anymore, it’s all yours.”

"Can you have fifty drachmas?"

"Don't talk nonsense, you think I will lie to you!"

Hebrida thought about it for a while and felt that the conditions offered by Calabis were not bad, but he was still angry because Calabis dared to resist. He said viciously: "One more, brother. I have suffered enough for this period of time, so let me fuck you all night long..."

"Shut up! Poti is my woman now. If you dare to touch her even a hair, I will go back to Rome and kill your wife and all your daughters!" Calabis roared.

"You dare!" Before Hebrida could finish shouting, Calabis roared in a voice higher than his own, with his hair standing on end: "Then give me a fucking try! Let's see if I dare. dare!"

Then, the warehouse fell silent. The two looked at each other from a safe distance for a while. Hebrida shook her hand and stretched out five fingers to Calabis, "Don't forget, fifty drachmas." ." Then he turned around and walked out of the warehouse slowly.

At dusk, the golden sunshine covered the waves of the Bithynia coast. The sea was like a golden velvet satin. Calabis pulled a lame and dirty child, who held a small baby in his hand. The gray dove lowered its head and looked at the cooing pigeon. It was bought by Calabis for three drachmas at the market. He slowly stepped on the soft sand and walked towards the wave waiting for him. Di.

"Is this what you bought from Hebrida?" Potty said with her hands on her hips, looking at the ugly child.

Calabis pressed the child's head with his hand and patted him to Potti's side, "Well, his name is Paluma (pigeon), Paluma. Calapis, he will be a member of our future family."

Potti took Paluma by the hand, and then said to Calapis: "Go and eat, I will ask the cook to add another small plate right away."

Two days later, Lucullus came back from the banquet of the Pergamon royal family that nominally ruled Bithynia (honorary royal family only, Bithynia had been a vassal of Rome seventy years ago). At this time, Kelly saw Paluma running around Calapis and blamed him: "Huh? This is your adopted son, don't you know that being adopted by the patron is a shame? Do you need the consent of the patron saint to adopt a son? You are so uneducated. "

"Don't blame Carapis, Kelly. I agreed." Luculas, dressed in purple, came over and touched the head of "Little Dove", and then asked Carapis about the shipment of goods, luggage, fresh water and food on the "Apollo". Carapis gave detailed answers one by one. Luculas nodded with satisfaction and then stroked Carapis' back: "You are loyal. After returning to Rome, it is inconvenient for you to serve in my family. I will ask Kelly to turn you into a paid publici. Although these jobs are a bit low, they are very suitable for free people to do. "

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